US President Donald Trump launched a religiously charged attack on Somalia-born US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The Republican President raked up her immigration background after White House shooting suspect was identified of being an Afghan. Calling her “the worst Congressman/woman” in the United States, Trump claimed that Ilhan Omar married her brother for immigration purposes.

Escalating his attack, Donald Trump alleged that Omar, who represents Minnesota, came to America illegally. “Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the USA illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our country, its Constitution, and how badly she is treated,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Meanwhile, he called Somalia a “decadent, backward, and crime-ridden nation.

There is, however, no evidence that Ilhan Omar ever married a relative or committed immigration fraud. On the other hand, the US President also did not elaborate on his shocking statements.

Who is Ilhan Omar?

Somalia-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar fled the country during a civil war at the age of 8 years. She moved to the United States after spending 4 years in a refugee camp in Kenya in 1995. She obtained American citizenship in 2000. As a Democrat, she won a fourth term in Congress in 2024.

Ilhan, who married Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002, is known for her anti-India stance. The couple has two children. In 2009, she tied the knot with Ahmed Elmi before parting ways in 2011. Omar and Hirsi welcomed their third child in 2012.

After divorcing Elmi, her second husband, Omar, remarried Hirsi in 2012 but filed for divorce in 2020. She is currently married to political consultant Tim Mynett. A report in the UK’s Daily Mail claimed that she confided to her friends that her second husband was her biological brother and the marriage was for immigration purposes.